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Definition of Stirp
1. n. Stock; race; family.
Definition of Stirp
1. Noun. (biology anthropology) A line descended from a single ancestor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stirp
1. lineage [n -S] - See also: lineage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirp
Literary usage of Stirp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"stirp. Crypt, i. 28, t.10; Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 15. HAB. Wet clayey or
sandy ground in bottoms, on the banks of rivers, ..."
2. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the by John Ray, Edwin Lankester (1848)
"... Observations on Mr. RAY'S Synopsis stirp. Britan.* Page 57. SIR,—The laborious
Parkinson was indeed mistaken when he confounded the Cham am. ..."
3. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"stirp. Helv. г. 1. 14. n. 32. £ cannot refuse admission to a plant that has
occurred in Essex, Herts, Surrey, the Isle of Wight, Lancashire and Fifeshire, ..."
4. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1903)
"Only some of the germs within the stirp attain development in the cells of the 'body
... The part of the stirp developed into the ' body' is almost sterile. ..."
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